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APRIL 12, 1912
The Commoner.
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April
I hear the robin's cheerful note,
And see the green buds swelling;
I see the soft clouds slowly float
And hear the soft winds tolling
That spring js here and winter drear
Has given way to April cheer.
I catch the woodland's haunting call,
And feel the far-off quiver
Of ev'ry unlocked waterfall
Of long bound rill and river.
And April showers and April flowers
Now bring reward for winter hours.
I catch . the glint of dancing stream
Through Held and woodland flow
ing; And see upon the pasture's gleam
The deep, rich color growing.
Before my eyes new nature lies,
Bathed in the glow of April skies.
A Financial Fable Wherein is Re
lated a Few Fundamental Facts
Relative to a Skin Game Often
Worked off Upon the Dear People.
A senator of ample means and lots
of dollars in .his jeans, was charged
with having bought his seat with
big greenbacks and scheming neat.
And to defend its purity the senate
said, "We'll have to see if in the
charge there's truth to glean; if so
we'll have to rush and wildly wield
the whitewash brush."
They found" he's spent a thousand
here, but 'twas for did not appear;
they found he'd spent ten thousand
there, but took his weird 'twas on
the square. A hundred thousand
dollars spent, but every one with
good intent. He simply dug the bills
to pay and blandly look the other
way.
"I'm not to blame if sordid mind
Indulged in trick of wrongful kind;
I merely put up scads of dough and
said" I didn't want to know how it
was spent; I paid the freight so 1
could represent my state." This the
defense of Stephenson and it ap
pears now to have won.
The jury? Well, we must admit
we's little confidence in it. Too
many senators like Steve for us to
readily believe it wasn't packed long
years ago with lumber, steel and oil,
you know. If they bumped him,
why, can't you see their own seats
soon would vacant be?
MORAL:
They say there's honor e'en 'mongst
thieves -
A thing that every one believes
Who's read the roll call in the case
That keeps some senators in place.
POLITICAL FABLES
The Fetching Fable of the Strenuous
One Who Discovered a New Word
in the Booktionary Just When
He Needed It Most.
A Strenuous One from Oyster Bay
remarked as he pursued his way to
Afric shores big game to shoot, "No
more will I go in pursuit of the high
place of president," and what he said
wo thought he meant. We never
dreamed that Teddy bold would
reach the Ananias fold.
But back he came with-gn.TriGba.g
filled with elephants that 'he had
Killed, ana lions, tigers quite a rait
then gunning went for William
Taft. But ere he started his cam
paign to cop the White House job
again some platitude ho had to frame
to blind the people to his game.
"My hat is in the ring!" he cried,
his pledge and promise cast aside.
"The only reason that I'll give is
that I meant consecutive. And thus
he sought to make excuse for from
his promise breaking loose; and all
who wouldn't sound his praise he's
roasting now in redhot phrase.
He's roasting now with jibes and
jeer's the president of many years;
what we denied to U. S. Grant, and
Washington, we'll hardly plant
within.jthe reach of Teddy now, for
it don't seem to us somehow that
we'll the precedent ignore and bust
it just for Theodore.
MORAL
Besides, if we did grant his whim
What is there' that's preventing him
From once more treading Afric shore
And coming back demanding more?
seem all right, but what jibout, those
cars in sight? Progressive "skin and
standpat ears did not deceive in for
mer years; and so I must confess I
think this Wall street scheme is on
the blink.
MORAL:
There isn't any for tho man
Who's deceived by such a plan.
The difference 'twixt a lion and mule
He couldn't tell by any rule.
Tho Fretful Fable of a Fat Gentle
man Who is Feeling the Pangs
of a Friendship Suffering From
Ingrowing Ambition.
A ponderous man from O-hi-o now
says he'd dearly love to know if
friendship's pledge is worth a cent
from any old ex-president; if solemn
promise is a joke jthat's made like
piecrust, to be broke. He bumped
against the real thing when Teddy's
hat sailed in the ring.
"Why, Teddy told you years ago
my equal none might hope to know;
he picked me out from all the crowd
as one of whom you might be proud.
He said 'my policies' I'd force and
follow in his steps of course. In
fact he guarantood 'gainot lose
now all I get's the double cross."
Thus now complains one William
Taft who helped mantain the tariff
graft. It makes us laugh because we
think how he applied the hinky-dink
to us by cinching his high place by
playing both ways from the ace; by
standing pat when east with zest and
being a progressive west.
The more we think of Taft's sad
fix for playing devious politics; the
more we think of Teddy's shriek, we
laugh until we're fairly weak. For
Bill kno'ws Ted, and Ted knows Bill,
and in due time the people will learn
all the facts about the two which
will delight both me and you.
MORAL:
If people want to get the facts
Then I pause here to speak ray
mind
They'll leave both Bill and Ted behind.
Nick the Prophet -
Just about the time tho Strenuous
One was'preparing to board ship en
route to Junglo Land, which was
about three years ago as you will
remember, Son-in-Law Nick ven
tured a remark.
"He will be re-nominated and re
elected president," remarked Nicho
las. Prior to this the Strenuous One
had declared that he would not be a
candidate for nor accept a nomina
tion for a third term. But that was
before he had found the word "con
secutive" in the voluminous volume
prepared by Noah Webster.
The Architect, disclaiming all In
tent to dabble in politics, desires at
this time to call to your attention
what Nicholas said, and offer it as
evidence that the son-in-law was
more in the confidence of father-in-
law at that time than the general
public happened to be.
As a political prophet Nicholas
seems to have class. Maybe!
would establish a kindergarten
school for ilio Instruction of parents.
Tho .time has at last come when
pcoplo view with suspicion tho man
who admits that ho is a hide-bound
partisan.
Wo can forglvo that man much
whose typewriting machine gets out
of whack when ho is in an awful
hurry to finish up and get away.
Peoplo who are thinking of getting
all they can out of llfo often make
the mistake of overlooking tho ne
cessity of putting something into it.
If pnly those who sowed wild oats
had to reap them it wouldn't be so
bud. The trouble is that innocent
people often have to do tho most
of the harvesting.
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The Forceful Fable of the Jerusalem
Pony That Sought to Delude tho
Populace Into Thinking It the
King of Beasts.
No doubt you've heard about the
dss that sought to reach a higher
class by one bright day appearing in
the disguise of a lion's skin, and
how he missed his scheme a mile be
cause he had forgot the while, that
o'er the lion's skin appears the same
old length of donkey's ears.
And yet he walked the broad high
way, and paused anon to loudly
bray, still thinking all the while, of
course, his brays were roars of
mighty force. He fooled a few with
all his din until they saw above the
skin' a pair of long ears sticking
through and then, of course, the
ass they knew.
Forgetful of this ass's fate some
men of a more modern date have
sought to work this lion play, though
in a slightly different way. They've
taken up a Wall street choice and
now declare in strident voice that
he's progressive and all that in
short a right good democrat.
But when the people closely view
they see the long ears sticking
through. The hair and hide may
"Kiddies Six"
The Architect rejoices at the recep
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Wayside Philosophy '
When you can't say something
good of a fellow, give your tongue a
rest.
A silk hat often tops a shoddy
head.
Sometimes it takes the world a
long time to detect the difference
between a really big man and one
who merely has a big man's ways.
The Difference
"Is Binks running for office?"
"He thinks ho is, but he is only
struggling."
Progressive
"Funny how Squircherly has
changed his mind on politics so
quickly."
"Yes; ever since he caught sight
of the rear end of tho procession he's
been calling himself a progressive."
Brain Leaks
Both sides of a saloon bar look
alike to God.
Man's best investments are kind
words, cheerful smiles and helpful
deeds.
Everybody loves the man or wo
man who has cultivated the art of
listening.
What we want and what we need
are two vastly different things for
which to pray.
Nobody who pays telephone bills
takes any stock in the saying that
"talk is cheap.".
The season of year is at hand when
the city man does an awful lot 'of
scientific farming in his' mind.
Sometimes we wish somebody
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